Pandora Remains On Top In Ando Rankings...

Pandora has gained just about 100,000 new listeners over a span of five months in the latest Ando Media online rankings. Proving their worth as the online listening leader, Pandora has grown from 391,000 listeners in April, to 486,000 listeners in August. Other results worth noting are the rankings of CBS, Clear Channel and Citadel. All made gains over the same period. Pure-play Slacker Radio is flat over the same five month period, finishing #7 in average active sessions and actual number of average active sessions (19,600 to 20,600). Ando adds that Slacker's number "Does not include mobile data". No reason was given for excluding the mobile numbers. The gap between Pandora and the rest of the field was once again, Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths...

CBS (streaming terrestrial stations, AOL Radio & Yahoo LaunchCast included) was a distant second with about 156,000 average active sessions. That number was 150,000 in July. Clear Channel was #3 with 122,000 (from 114,000 in July), #4 is Citadel, up from 38,000 to about 42,000 (July to August) and #5 is Entercom, up from about 22,800 to 24,427. Slacker, ESPN Radio, Cox, Cumulus and the rest of the pack take up the rear...

A total of 16 of the top 20 webcasters in Ando Media's domestic ranker for the month of August were up compared to July in average active sessions (AAS) during the primetime Monday-Friday, 6am-8pm daypart. The best way to sum up the Ando is by Pandora's continued dominance. There's Pandora and then, there's everyone else...

10 Timeline Memories:
1.1876] Politics as usual: Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy (Boss) Tweed is captured in Spain and returned to authorities in New York…
2.1889] Jukebox Saturday Night every night: The first jukebox goes into service at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. Owned by developer Louis T. Glass, the box contains an Edison tinfoil phonograph with 4 listening tubes. A nickel bought a few minutes of music. The jukebox took in a whopping $1,000 in 6 months…
3.1936] A Life is born: The first edition of Life is published…
4.1971] Chinese imports: Representatives of the People’s Republic of China are seated at the U.N. In 1950, Nationalist China was seated...
5.1980] Earthshaking: A series of earthquakes in Southern Italy takes 3,000 lives…
6.1981] A secret no longer: Ronald Reagan secretly signs off on Iran-Contra…
7.1984] Hail Mary: Doug Flutie connects with roomie Gerard Phelan and Boston College defeats Miami 47-45 in one of the greatest college football games of all-time. Bernie Kosar was the Miami QB…
8.1985] Hijacking: Gunmen hijack an Egyptian plane, 60 are killed…
9.2006] Spy snuffing: Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko dies in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin…
10.2000] Drawing a blank: The Florida Supreme Court refuses to order Miami-Dade County to resume counting ballots by hand in the presidential race…

Music Memories:

• 1960] Number One on this date: "Are You Lonesome Tonight" - Elvis Presley...1974] "I Can Help" - Billy Swan. I had the pleasure of working with Billy who was a member of Kris Kristofferson's band...

"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Miley Cyrus (18), Jonathan Papelbon (30), Robin Roberts (50), Bruce Hornsby (56), Sen. Chuck Schumer (60), Tom Joyner (61), Luis Tiant (70) and Gloria Lynne (79)...

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